Re: Description of tasks (was: -= PROPOSAL =- Release sarge with amd64)
Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 01:24:41AM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
>> martin f krafft wrote:
>
>> <snip>
>> > My point is that I think there should be documents describing the
>> > role positions and their exact extents. Moreover, the keepers of
>> > role positions should be persuaded to extend these job descriptions
>> > with all kinds of resources they have accumulated during their
>> > terms. Such a document must be able to convey the extent of the job
>> > and allow someone with enthusiasm and time to get up to speed in
>> > short time.
>
>> > Only with such document will Debian have a true democracy.
>> ....or, indeed, a true meritocracy. See below.
>
>> > Up till
>> > then, it's closer to a meritocracy (I had to look that up)
>> Except it isn't. In a meritocracy, a new person who's more competent
>> (for whatever reason -- perhaps because the old person was tired or busy)
>> would
>> take over quickly. This does *not* happen.
>
>> It's more like a quangocracy (rule of quasi-autonomous non-governmental
>> organizations) or a squattocracy (rule by squatters). The people who are
>> in certain positions are there because they are there, more than for any
>> other reason.
>
> So you speak with such authority, surely this means *you've* approached
> the mirror team personally, offered your assistance, and been turned
> down?
The mirror team? So it's the mirror team who needs help now? I hadn't
heard of any issues with the mirror team. (And I certainly wasn't
referring to them.) What do they need help with?
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